Sean Michael Kerner

AUSTIN, Texas — Visa is one of the world’s most trusted brands, and at DockerCon 17 today, Swamy Kocherlakota, SVP, Global Head of Infrastructure and Operations at Visa, told a capacity keynote audience why Visa trusts Docker. Kocherlakota said there are some 3.1 billion Visa cards in use today, and the company processes $5.8 trillion […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a major update of its IT Operations Management (ITOM) software applications, with new container-based versions. HPE’s ITOM portfolio includes Hybrid Cloud Management, Data Center Automation, Operations Bridge and IT Service Management Automation. HPE has already embraced containers in a number of other areas in its portfolio, including shipping Docker with […]

Running Ubuntu Linux on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud is a fairly common practice. Though Ubuntu has been available in the AWS marketplace for years, until recently there wasn’t a version of Ubuntu with a Linux kernel that was specifically tuned for the AWS environment. Udi Nachmany, head of public cloud at Ubuntu/Canonical, announced […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is updating its enterprise racks as well power distribution units (PDU) with a new generation of server infrastructure products. Gary Craze, WorldWide Product Marketing Manager, Rack & Power Infrastructure at Hewlett Packard Enterprise at HPE, explained to ServerWatch that the G2 products will replace the current generation (G1) products. “We made […]

BERLIN — The open-source Kubernetes container management and orchestration system isn’t just for hyperscale data center operators, it can also benefit consumer electronics vendors. Speaking at the Kubecon / CloudNative EU conference in Berlin this week, Mark Van Straten, Senior Developer at development firm Q42, detailed how Philips embraced Kubernetes to help enable the next […]

BERLIN — Joe Beda is in a better position than most to understand what’s wrong with Kubernetes. Beda helped to start the Kubernetes project while he was at Google; he now runs a startup called Heptio that is aiming to help further enable Kubernetes. At the Kubecon / CloudNative EU conference in Berlin, Beda delivered […]

CoreOS and OpenStack have a somewhat intertwined history, which is why it’s somewhat surprising it took until today for CoreOS’s Tectonic Kubernetes distribution to provide an installer that targets OpenStack cloud deployments. The founders of CoreOS originally worked at Rackspace, alongside the founders of OpenStack, and CoreOS executives have been a common sight at OpenStack […]

Oracle originally built its business success with its eponymous database running on server infrastructure. Now in 2017, Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison still sees database as being core to success, though instead of it only running on local or company-owned data center servers, he sees the future as one where Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud deployments […]

2016 was not a fantastic year for the server market. Analyst firms IDC and Gartner have published their fourth quarter 2016 server reports, and both show declining revenues and shipments. For the quarter, Gartner reported a 1.9 percent decline in worldwide server revenue, while IDC reported a more dramatic 4.6 percent year-over-year decline to $14.6 […]

One of the world’s smallest computing platforms is getting a bit more connected today. The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced on Feb. 28 the new Raspberry Pi Zero W small form-factor system. The Raspberry Pi is an ARM-based system that was originally meant for students and hobbyists, though in recent years it has been widely used […]

For decades, Sun Microsystems updated its Solaris Unix operating system with new major releases on a semi-regular release cycle. When Oracle acquired Sun in 2010, the early expectation was that Solaris would continue to evolve in a similar manner, but that’s no longer the case. In November 2011, Oracle released Solaris 11, but it now […]

The Linux Foundation’s Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is expanding its roster of hosted projects today with the inclusion of the open-source Linkerd service mesh project. The CNCF got started in July 2015 with the Kubernetes container management platform as its first project. CNCF has since expanded by adding the Prometheus monitoring project in May […]